Share everything. Play fair. Don't hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don't take things that aren't yours. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out into the world, watch for traffic, hold hands and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the plastic cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the plastic cup—they all die. So do we.
And then remember the book about Dick and Jane and the first word you learned, the biggest word of all: LOOK. Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and sane living.
Think of what a better world it would be if we all—the whole world—had cookies and milk about 3 o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankets for a nap. Or if we had a basic policy in our nations to always put things back where we found them and clean up our own messes. And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world, it is better to hold hands and stick together.
*From "chicken soup for the soul"
P.S. thanks to Salateeno, Mitr2a3 , Kalshinkov and everyone who kept checking my blog in Ramadan.
It is a tough old world, baby. If u r not bolted together u're gonna shake, rattle, & roll before u turn 30!
Friday, October 27, 2006
All I Ever Really Needed To Know I Learned In Kindergarten
posted by Veeeva at 10/27/2006 02:10:00 PM
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16 Comments:
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welcome back, kol 3eeed wenti tayeba..
what is nice about kg is that you hear all this stuff for the first time.. u didnt know it before..
but we can say that u know "the basics" in the kg.. later , you'll go "beyond the basics", and see with ur bare eyes that many of the kg lessons are "questionable"! :) -
At 11:17 AM,
salateenoo -
That kind of reminds me of the movie Pleasantville, it's nice really, ... but I think that this world we live in is genuine and rich because of (and not instead of) our vast personal differences. Our lives are richer for our sufferings and our failures. It would be dumb and dull if all were same and everything was fine. And I think that holding hands and sticking togeather in problems, danger, or uncertainty, is even more romantic than holding hands when everything is just fine. (for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part)
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At 8:36 PM,
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At 11:46 AM,
welcome back & kol sana wenti 6ayeba
actually i was missing ur unique posts
u r extremely right... the same basics ... but in a big shape